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This (overwhelming) curated list touching every aspect of leadership is very nice! It has collections of links to articles about all kind of Leadership and Management related articles. Very useful! Also, nice that it is a Github page, written in Markdown. https://github.com/LappleApple/awesome-leading-and-managing

In this article Simon Powers asks : “What is Agile?” It’s a question that’s been asked (too) many times, but again, it’s in Agile’s nature to keep changing so the question will probably stay around for a while 🙂 The article is about this diagram: The bottom line is: Many organizations think that they’re agile […]

I stumbled across this article on LinkedIn : “What is means to be an open leader”. It states : Being an open leader means creating the context others need to do their best work. It’s a definition that’s close to agile and it resonates with me. The initiator, the CEO of Red Hat, states that ‘context […]

I read this article: Where is the Agile I was promised ? It’s about the soul of agile and it expresses my feelings quite well. It’s message is: Agile is not a list of artifacts, but agile is a mindset. Or call it a Soul, which you, as a person working in a team should follow over it’s […]

“Yes, always! “ is my initial response. I’d even say: if you discard all of the ceremonials of Scrum and have to choose 1 to re-introduce, it should be the retrospective. Without a doubt. But I have a confession to make. Mike Cohn wrote an article that caught my attention, since I’m currently working with 2 teams […]

Is Scrum just a list with artefacts? A lot is written about Scrum. And Gunther also wrote a good story about signs you may have a wrong idea of it. Basically he states: Scrum is not a list of artefacts, but it’s a state of mind. I totally agree. As a ScrumMaster, I’m not interested […]